| 2011 |
Associate Professor Peter Slezak
School of History and Philosophy at the University of New South Wales for the pivotal role that he played in the production of the Compass program, The Trials of Galileo, which appeared on the ABC in May 2010.  In this program the trial of Galileo at the hands of the Roman Catholic Inquisition is re-examined. Nearly 400 years after the original trial, the program brought together leadings scientists, scholars, barristers, politicians and churchmen to assess whether Galileo was correctly treated. This was an important television event that explored important philosophical themes about the relationship between religion and science. The program demonstrated a keen sense of how issues in the philosophy of science might be brought to life for a general audience.
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| 2010 |
Dr Caroline West
University of Sydney, as the winner of the 2010 AAP Media prize for a piece 'Work four hours, then rest' which appeared as the lead opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald on 4 August 2009, and also in the Brisbane Courier-Mail and National Times. It led to more than 11 follow-up radio interviews. including ABC702 Sydney (Breakfast Program with Adam Spencer); ABC Newcastle (Drive program); ABC Tasmania; and ABC Melbourne (Drive Program).
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Caroline also delivered a public lecture at the 2009 Sydney Writers Festival, which was recorded and broadcast on ABC Radio National, The Philosopher's Zone, as 'The Happiness Machine' on 30 May, 2009. In addition, Caroline published 2 further opinion pieces in 2009:
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| 2009 |
Associate Professor John Armstrong
School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry, University of Melbourne and Philosopher in Residence at the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, for a series of articles that appeared in The Age and the Australian on what is art and the function of the humanities. Articles nominated include:
- 'The line of ugliness', The Age, January 26, 2008.
- 'In a liberal democracy, ideals inspire', The Australian, October 10, 2008.
- 'Decline Reflects Poorly on Arts', The Australian, November 05, 2008
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| 2008 |
Dr Geoffrey Levey
Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales, for his essay 'A healthy dose of multiculturalism', published in Australian Financial Review, 27 April 2007.
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| 2007 |
Dr Jeremy Moss
for a series of columns, 'The Ethicist', which appeared in The Sunday Age in 2006. 'The Ethicist' presents philosophical thinking to a wide audience on a regular basis, discussing issues of the day, with an explicitly philosophical focus. Moss has also written a number of articles on ethics in education for teachers magazines aimed at Victorian secondary schools.
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2006
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Simon Clarke
University of Canterbury for a series of newspaper columns entitled 'Clear Thinking' that appeared in the Christchurch Press.
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2005
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Kim Atkins
for her article 'Matters of personal preference', The Australian Financial Review.
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2004
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Stan Van Hooft
for his Late Night Live interview with Phillip Adams on Socratic Dialogue. Listen to, or view the transcript, of some of Stan's more recent radio interviews on What is Morality? and Cosmopolitanism. Both interviews took place on Alan Saunders' ABC Radio National Program, The Philosophers Zone.
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| 2003 |
Tim Dare.
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2002
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John Sutton
for his weekly radio program Ghost in the Machine. John has also been interviewed on various topics, including Dreams on ABC Radio National Program Life Matters and Animal Spirits: The Mind in History on ABC Radio National Program All in the Mind.
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| 2001 |
In 2001 the AAP Media Prize was not awarded.
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| 2000 |
Tamas Pataki
for his article 'Narcissism Incarnate', The Australian's Review of Books, August 1999.
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1999
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Chandran Kukathas
for his lecture, 'Tolerating the Intolerable', delivered at the Senate Department's Occasional Lecture Series on 24th June 1998 in Parliament House. The lecture was broadcast on ABC Radio National program Life Matters, and is published in Papers on Parliament, 1999.
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